Trains To The Trenches
DOWNLOAD
Download Trains To The Trenches PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Trains To The Trenches book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Trains To The Trenches
DOWNLOAD
Author : Andrew Roden
language : en
Publisher: Aurum Press
Release Date : 2014-10-31
Trains To The Trenches written by Andrew Roden and has been published by Aurum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-31 with History categories.
How Would the railways of today - across Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Austria, and all other combatants - fare if they were faced with the challenges their counterparts a century earlier were? Without the railways for the Great Powers, the most terrible conflict the world has ever known would have taken a very different form â?? if it had happened at all. In a remarkable historical railway journey through Britain and Europe, author Andrew Roden tells the story of the men and women who manned the tracks and the trains, and who relied on them to get them to battle and back home again. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and archive material he reveals the personal stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, and pays tribute to their overlooked contribution. Supported with remarkable illustrations and photography, Roden interweaves memories of his own present day travels by train with diary excerpts of ambulance train nurses, returning POWs, drivers that put their lives in danger for everyone on board and other key voices. Roden takes the reader on a gripping journey, from the secret planning rooms in Berlin, through to the killing fields of the trenches, as well as the home fronts of the key combatants. Looking at defining moments of railway history on both sides of the Great War they build a unique and very human picture of a wartime railway across Europe.
Four Weeks In The Trenches
DOWNLOAD
Author : Fritz Kreisler
language : en
Publisher: Serapis Classics
Release Date : 2017-09-19
Four Weeks In The Trenches written by Fritz Kreisler and has been published by Serapis Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with History categories.
In trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused. Some of the experiences stand out with absolute clearness; others, however, are blurred. Two or three events which took place in different localities seem merged into one, while in other instances recollection of the chronological order of things is missing. This curious indifference of the memory to values of time and space may be due to the extraordinary physical and mental stress under which the impressions I am trying to chronicle were received...
Wave Propagation For Train Induced Vibrations
DOWNLOAD
Author : Yeong-Bin Yang
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2009
Wave Propagation For Train Induced Vibrations written by Yeong-Bin Yang and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Transportation categories.
For buildings and factories located near railway or subway lines, the vibrations caused by the moving trains, especially at high speeds, may be annoying to the residents or detrimental to the high-precision production lines. However, there is a lack of simple and efficient tools for dealing with the kind of environmental vibrations, concerning simulation of the radiation of infinite boundaries; irregularities in soils, buildings and wave barriers; and dynamic properties of the moving vehicles. This book is intended to fill such a gap.
Microscopic Structure Effect On The Macroscopic Property Of Geomaterials
DOWNLOAD
Author : Qingxiang Meng
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2023-03-17
Microscopic Structure Effect On The Macroscopic Property Of Geomaterials written by Qingxiang Meng and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-17 with Science categories.
Colonel P Chot
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sarah Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Colonel P Chot written by Sarah Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Military railroads categories.
Numerical Methods In Geotechnical Engineering
DOWNLOAD
Author : Helmut F. Schweiger
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2006-08-17
Numerical Methods In Geotechnical Engineering written by Helmut F. Schweiger and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
An overview of recent developments in constitutive modelling, numerical implementation issues, and coupled and dynamic analysis. There is a special section dedicated to the numerical modelling of ground improvement techniques, with applications of numerical methods for solving practical boundary value problems, such as deep excavations, tunne
The Great Train Race
DOWNLOAD
Author : Allan Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2000
The Great Train Race written by Allan Mitchell and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"The breadth of [this] comparative study of French and German railroad development - the largest and most important railway systems on the continent - is a signal achievement... A brief sketch of the book's trajectory does justice neither to the wealth of detail nor to the arresting insights that future historians will draw on for years to come." - Central European History "... a fine book. Indeed, it is a labour of love, informed by intensive research and a lifetime's interest. All historians of European railways will be greatly in its debt." - The International History Review "The Great Train Race is a well-researched book, full of useful comparative insights into French and German railway development, and doubtless an important contribution to the history of Franco-German rivalry before World War One ... [R]ecommended to economic historians as a study which shows, in well-balanced comparative perspective, the great importance of their field for understanding political history." - Journal of Modern History "For Mitchell, this was clearly a labor of love, and it is a pleasure to see a job well done. The book has a full scholarly apparatus along with vital charts and maps to keep things clear." - H-German "Allan Mitchell is presenting, with The Great Train Race, a highly informed and ambitious study, in which the fundamental importance of trains for the societies of both countries has been convincingly argued." - Historische Zeitschrift "...Presents a rich and understandable overview...The book provides an excellent model for researching and writing comparative railway histories. Such analyses of the relationship between state and railway are rare events." - The Journal of Transport History From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that eventually escalated into the armed conflict of 1914. Based on many years of research in French and German archives, this study examines the adaptation of railroads and steam engines from Britain to the continent of Europe after the Napoleonic age. A fascinating example of how the same technology, borrowed at the same time from the same source, was assimilated differently by the two continental powers, this book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the crossroads of technology and politics during the first Industrial Revolution.
Battlefield Medicine
DOWNLOAD
Author : John S. Haller
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2011-03-29
Battlefield Medicine written by John S. Haller and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-29 with Medical categories.
In this first history of the military ambulance, historian John S. Haller Jr. documents the development of medical technologies for treating and transporting wounded soldiers on the battlefield. Noting that the word ambulance has been used to refer to both a mobile medical support system and a mode of transport, Haller takes readers back to the origins of the modern ambulance, covering their evolution in depth from the late eighteenth century through World War I. The rising nationalism, economic and imperial competition, and military alliances and arms races of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries figure prominently in this history of the military ambulance, which focuses mainly on British and American technological advancements. Beginning with changes introduced by Dominique-Jean Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars, the book traces the organizational and technological challenges faced by opposing armies in the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian War, and the Philippines Insurrection, then climaxes with the trench warfare that defined World War I. The operative word is "challenges" of medical care and evacuation because while some things learned in a conflict are carried into the next, too often, the spasms of war force its participants to repeat the errors of the past before acquiring much needed insight. More than a history of medical evacuation systems and vehicles, this exhaustively researched and richly illustrated volume tells a fascinating story, giving readers a unique perspective of the changing nature of warfare in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Tracks To The Trenches
DOWNLOAD
Author : David R. P. Guay
language : en
Publisher: Fifth House Publishers
Release Date : 2017
Tracks To The Trenches written by David R. P. Guay and has been published by Fifth House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
"Tracks to the Trenches is a photographic history of the role that Canadian soldiers and railroad men played in the construction of rail lines to the Allied front during World War I."--
After The Trenches
DOWNLOAD
Author : William O. Odom
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2008
After The Trenches written by William O. Odom and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
At the end of the Great War, the U.S. Army faced the challenge of integrating what it had learned in the failures and ultimate success of its war effort. During the interwar years the army sought to balance readiness and modernization in a period of limited resources and technological advances with profound implications for the conduct of warfare. In After the Trenches, William O. Odom traces the development of combat doctrine between the world wars through an examination of the army's primary doctrine manuals, the Field Service Regulations. The Field Service Regulations of 1923 successfully assimilated the experiences of the First World War and translated them into viable tactical practice, Odom argues in this unique study. Rapidly developing technologies generated more efficient tools of war and greatly expanded the scale, tempo, and complexity of warfare. Personnel and material shortages led to a decline in the quality of army doctrine evidenced in the 1939 regulations. Examining the development of doctrine and the roles of key personalities such as John Pershing, Hugh Drum, George Lynch, Frank Parker, and Lesley McNair, Odom concludes that the successive revisions of the manual left the army scurrying to modernize its woefully outdated doctrine on the eve of the new war. This impressively researched study of the doctrine of the interwar army fills a significant gap in our understanding of the development of the U.S. Army during the first half of the twentieth century. It will serve scholars and others interested in military history as the standard reference on the subject. Moreover, many of the challenges and conditions that existed seventy years ago resemble those faced bytoday's army. This study of the army's historical responses to a declining military budget and an ever-changing technology will broaden the perspectives of those who must deal with these important contemporary issues.